Final Technical Program (Updated on October 8, 2008)
Wednesday, October 15 2008
Wednesday, October 15 2008 08:45am – 09:00am
Room: Santa Maria
Welcome Addresses
General Chair: Prof. Huessein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Wednesday, October 15 2008 09:00am – 10:00am
Room: Santa Maria
Keynote Talk I: Future Evolution of Broadband Access: Towards Hybrid Optical/Wireless Networks
Prof. Leonid G. Kazovsky, Stanford University, USA
10:00am – 10:30am Coffee Break
Wednesday, October 15 2008 10:30am – 12:15pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 1: Hybrid Access Networks
Chair: Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
1. Invited Talk: HOWRAN: a Hybrid Optical Wireless Radio Access Network for WiMAX Antennas Backhauling
Maurice Gagnaire and Tony Youssef, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
2. Invited Talk: The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks
Martin Maier, Navid Ghazisaidi, and Martin Reisslein, University of Quebec, Canada
3. Wireless Channel Condition Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Hybrid Optical/Wireless Networks
Ying Yan, Hao Yu, and Lars Dittmann, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
4. Planning Multitechnology Access Networks with Performance Constraints
Steven Chamberland, Ecole Polytechnique de Montr´eal, Canada
12:15pm – 02:00pm
Lunch Break
Room: Guadalajara
Wednesday, October 15 2008 02:00pm – 03:45pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 2: Passive Optical Networks
Chair: Martin Maier, University of Quebec, Canada
1. Invited Talk: When Are Online and O²ine Excess Bandwidth Distribution Useful in EPONs?
Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA; Jason R. Ferguson, ADTRAN, USA; Michael P. McGarry, The University of Akron, USA
2. TCP Performance over Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks
Julio Orozco, Orange Labs, France and David Ros, Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, France
3. Fragmentation in a Novel Implementation of Slotted GPON Segmentation and Reassembly
Yixuan Qin, Martin Reed, Zheng Lu, David Hunter, Albert Rafel, and Justin Kang, University of Essex, UK
4. Case for Dynamic Reconfigurability in Access Networks
Rajeev Roy and Wim van Etten, University of Twente, Netherlands
03:45pm – 04:15pm Coffee Break
Wednesday, October 15 2008 04:15pm – 05:45pm
Room: Santa Maria
Panel Session I: Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks
Panel Organizers:
Neo Antoniades College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA
Nicholas Madamopoulos City College, The City University of New York, USA
Panelists:
Anthony Ng'Oma Corning, Inc., USA
Mohsen Sarraf Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
Jianjun Yu NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Ashwin Gumaste IIT Bombay, India
Thursday, October 16 2008
Thursday, October 16 2008 09:00am – 10:00am
Room: Santa Maria
Keynote Talk II: Carrier Ethernet and the Evolving Access Networks
Dr. Kevin Schneider, CTO of ADTRAN Inc., USA
10:00am – 10:30am Coffee Break
Thursday, October 16 2008 10:30am – 12:15pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 3: Wireless Access Networks
Chair: Maurice Gagnaire, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
1. Invited Talk: Cost-performance planning of municipal wireless access networks
Paolo Giacomazzi and Alessandro Poli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2. Supporting session and access point mobility in a large multi-provider multi-vendor municipal WiFi network
Timo Ojala, Toni Hakanen, Ossi Salmi, Mikko Kenttälä and Juha Tiensyrjä, University of Oulu, Finland
3. A fast MAC-layer handover for an IEEE 802.16e-based WMAN
Sayan Ray, Krzysztof Pawlikowski, and Harsha Sirisena, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
4. A Conflict-Free Low-Jitter Guaranteed-Rate MAC Protocol for Base-Station Communications in a Wireless Mesh Network
Ted H. Szymanski, McMaster University, Canada
5. Coexistence of collocated IEEE 802.11 and BT technologies in 2.4 GHz ISM band
Ariton xhafa, Xiaolin Lu, and Donald P. Shaver, Texas Instruments, Inc., USA
12:15pm – 02:00pm
Lunch Break
Room: Guadalajara
Thursday, October 16 2008 02:00pm – 03:45pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 4: DSL Networks
Chair: John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA
1. Invited Talk: Greener Copper with Dynamic Spectrum Management
John M. Cioffi, S. Jagannathan, W. Lee, Hao Zou, and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Stanford University; W. Rhee, George Ginis, and P. Silverman, ASSIA, Inc., USA
2. Statistical Relation between Loop Attenuation and Data Bit Rate for ADSL
Jerzy Siuzdak and Tomasz Czarnecki, Instytut Telekomunikacji Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
3. Loop Identification and Capacity Estimation of Digital Subscriber Lines with Single Ended Line Testing
Carine Neus, Wim Foubert, and Leo Van Biesen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
4. Near-Optimal Multi-User Greedy Bit-Loading for Digital Subscriber Lines
Alastair McKinley and Alan Marshall, Queens University Belfast, UK
5. Topology Design of Hierarchical Hybrid Fiber-VDSL Access Networks with Enhanced Discrete Binary PSO
Rong Zhao, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and DeteconInternational GmbH, Germany; Ralf Lehnert, and Yi Zhang, DresdenUniversity of Technology, Germany
03:45pm – 04:15pm Coffee Break
Thursday, October 16 2008 04:15pm – 05:45pm
Room: Santa Maria
Panel Session II: Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) Successes
Panel Organizer:
John M. Cioffi Stanford University, USA
Panelists:
George Ginis, Assia, Inc., USA
Raj Savoor AT&T, USA
Lukasz Mikochi Telecom Poland, Poland
Robert Staniszewski Telecom Poland, Poland
Louis Scalzo Vector Silicon, Inc., USA
Hao Zou Stanford University, USA
07:00pm – 09:00pm
Banquet Dinner
Room: Pinta
Friday, October 17 2008
Friday, October 17 2008 09:00am – 10:30am
Room: Santa Maria
Section 5: PLC and DSL Networks
Chair: Djamel Sadok, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
1. Modeling of Channel Allocation in Broadband Power Line Communications Access Networks and a Multi-Criteria Optimization Problem
Abdelfatteh Haidine and Ralf Lehnert, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
2. Placement of Base Stations in Broadband Power Line Communications Access Networks by Means of Multi-Criteria Optimization
Abdelfatteh Haidine and Ralf Lehnert, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
3. A Simulator of Periodically Switching Channels for Power Line Communications
Taro Hayasaki, Daisuke Umehara, Satoshi Denno, and Masahiro Morikura, Kyoto University, Japan
4. Estimating Video Quality over ADSL2+ under Impulsive Line Disturbance
Glauco Gonçalves, Ramide Dantas, André Palhares, Judith Kelner, Joseane, Fidalgo, Djamel Sadok, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil; Henrik Almeida, Miguel Berg, Daniel Cederholm, Ericsson Research, Sweden
5. Performance Evaluation of the Cable Bundle Unique Power Back-Off Algorithm
Driton Statovci and Tomas Nordström, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee Break
Friday, October 17 2008 11:00am – 12:30pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 6: Access Network Performance
Chair: Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1. Enabling Broadband as Commodity within Access Networks: a QoS recipe
Enrique Areizaga, Robotiker-tecnalia, Spain; Andreas Foglar, Infineon Technologies, Germany; Antonio J. Elizondo, Telefonica I+D, Spain; Frank Geilhardt, T-Systems, Germany
2. Robust Coverage and Performance Testing for Large-Area Wireless Networks
Caleb Phillips, Russell Senior, Douglas Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald,University of Colorado, USA
3. Performance Analysis of Multi-Format WDM-RoF Links based on Low Cost Laser and SOA
Carlos Almeida, António Teixeira, Mário Lima, University of Aveiro, Portugal
4. A Unified Framework of the Performance Evaluation of Optical Time-Wavelength Code-Division Multiple-Access Systems
Elie Inaty, University of Balamand, Lebanon
5. Performance Comparison of Orthogonal and Quasi-orthogonal Codes In Quasi-Synchronous Cellular CDMA Communication
Sujit Jos, Preetam Kumar, and Saswat Chakrabarti, IIT Kharagpur, India
12:30pm – 02:00pm
Lunch Break
Room: Guadalajara
Friday, October 17 2008 02:00pm – 04:00pm
Room: Santa Maria
Session 7: Access Networks (work in progress)
Chair: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada
1. A Fast Channel Switching method in EPON system for IPTV service
Yaling Nie and Hideya Yoshiuchi, HITACHI Research & Development Corp., China
2. WDM Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Ethernet PONs
Kae Hsiang Kwong, Hammad Yaqoob, Craig Michie, Ivan Andonovic, University of Strathclyde, UK
3. VoIP Performance of WiMAX Downlink
Xiangning Fan and Zhu Dengkui, Southeast University, China
4. Performance of Adaptive Sub-carrier and Bit Allocation Algorithms for Multi-user OFDM Wireless Systems
Xiangning Fan and Chu Jintao, Southeast University, China
5. Proportional Increase Multiplicative Decrease (PIMD) Wireless Scheduler
Arshad Hussain and Shaban Qaiser, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
6. Appropriate Templates for Broadband Access in Non-developed and Developing Countries
Morteza Haddadzadeh, Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC), Iran
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